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Interview with Lee Aase

Maybe you read the post I recently wrote about a slideshow describing how Mayo Clinic utilizes social media in fantastic ways. This slideshow was created by Lee Aase (@LeeAase), who happens to be manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic (@mayoclinic). Mr. Aase, despite his busy schedule, was kind enough to [...]

2 June 2009 | interview, medicine | 2 Comments

Wasting your life online

Are we all spending too much time on the Internet? It seams that a lot of people I know, the people whose blogs I am reading, the people who I follow on Twitter, are actually some kind of electrical beings living inside the biggest web of all. They are constantly online. Seriously, when they are [...]

11 December 2008 | humor, internet, interview | 1 Comment

Promote the openECGproject

You visited the openECGproject, and you think the idea behind it is honorable. Well then, why not promote it. We designed some pretty good looking badges you could add to your web site. Simply copy and paste the code of the badge you want into your web page, forum or e-mail signature.

<a href="http://ivor-kovic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/oep_badge1.png"><img title="I love [...]

7 December 2008 | design, internet, medicine, science | 4 Comments

Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33

Welcome to the 33rd edition of Medicine 2.0 blog carnival that focuses on the integration of web 2.0 with our current practice of medicine. I am delighted to be your host this time around and would like to thank Berci Mesko for this opportunity.
I love numbers and 33 is a very beautiful number with [...]

19 October 2008 | internet, interview, iphone, medicine, science | 23 Comments

Medical Bloggers Survey Resume

It has been ten days since our “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” article was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research. During this period we have received numerous supportive e-mails from various bloggers and researchers. Also, many bloggers have written about our research, posted our abstract or slideshow presentation on [...]

3 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Blogging from my iPhone

I’m sitting on my balcony, sun is shining, Miles Davis playing on my stereo, cold drink in one hand, iPhone in the other, writing this post.
Ever since Apple launched it’s App Store I’ve been testing numerous third party apps on my iPhone. So far this one from Word Press, which I’m using to write this [...]

1 August 2008 | internet, iphone | 1 Comment